‘Tales from Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery’ Archives
Coming Soon! To A Cemetery Near You: “THE GENERAL” Starring BUSTER KEATON With music by DREAMLAND FACES
Cinema in the Cemetery kicks off the season on May 24, 2014, with an outdoor screening of Buster Keaton”'s 1924 comic masterpiece, THE GENERAL. Local musicians DREAMLAND FACES will play an original score during the screening. The gates will open at 7 p.m. and the film will start at sundown, approximately 8:30. Come early and go on a history hunt. Bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on. This event is sponsored by Friends of the Cemetery, in conjunction with Take-Up Productions, The Trylon Microcinema and allstarvideo.org. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the gate. Take-Up punch cards are accepted. Proceeds go to the Cemetery”'s Fence Restoration Fund.
Pioneer and Soldiers Cemetery 146th Memorial Day Ceremony May 26 at 10 AM
This year”'s Memorial Day observance, the 146th at Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery, will take place on Monday, May 26th at 10 a.m. Please join us in remembering John Robischon and almost 200 other veterans along with a Color Guard, Band, Speakers, and Military Volley with Taps. At 1:00 in the afternoon there will be a history talk (seated) followed by an optional walking tour. All events are free and everyone is welcome to attend.
Carved stone lambs mark a few of the scores of children”'s graves
Lambs are often on the gravestones of children depicting youthfulness and innocence. Religious meaning for some is in relation to Biblical verses about the Lamb of God and the Shepherd guding his flock of young lambs and older sheep. Many lambs of Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery have weathered or disappeared as have approximately 700 other tombstones. By Sue Hunter Weir Rampant, communicable diseases caused early deaths now preventable On the north side of the cemetery, in one of the blocks of graves overlooking the Midtown Greenway, there are nine lots divided into half-size graves. They are children”'s graves, mostly from the early-to-mid 1890s. It”'s not clear why the cemetery”'s owners set aside these special sections for children at that particular time. It may have been to meet the needs of parents who couldn”'t afford full-sized graves but who didn”'t want their children buried in the paupers”' section of the cemetery. It”'s may [...]
